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Displaying 11 - 20 of 613 itemsBiography: A.E. Truckell, MBE, MA, FMA, FSA, FSA Scot
… in his hand into his own pocket — for example, many of the coins in the teaching collections were funded by this route … of gardening — typically he savoured the serendipity of buying Chiltern Seeds’ ‘anonymous packets’ – and thoroughly … Audio tape radio interview. [Dumfries Museum DUMFM:1986.26] History of the Parish of Kirkbean [local booklet] …
… of Defence Estate. Since 2004, the Speaker has been one of a team of five Archaeology Advisers in the MOD Historic Environment Team. He is based in Catterick, with … good quality materials in a striking and architecturally accomplished Neo-Georgian style, to house 640 men. They did …
Biography: William Lennon (1818-1899)
… In the reconstituted Society he held office as a Member of Committee and was also a member of the committee appointed … of his position with Sir Edward, when uniforms were introduced in the late 1870s he was excused from wearing one. He, Lennon, retired on 1 September 1885 and received a …
Meeting: Two talks by members
… at Spedlins Tower, Templand, the fourth son of the sixth Baronet of Applegarth, Sir Alexander Jardine. In 1835, John Jardine took a commission with the 1st Regiment of Dragoons, marrying two … Gair Alastair Gair, a Castle Douglas dentist, who has been visiting Orkney since the 1980s, gave the Society an …
Wood Pigot place list: Wood Places, Dumfries & Maxwelltown, 1819
… The modern location of the place is given in parentheses. Academy … Dumfries Bridewell (Buccleuch Street) Dumfries Note: Compound on south side of Buccleuch Street at corner with St … - most of buildings (four) cross-hatched. British Linen Company's Bank (High Street) Dumfries Note: coded 'f' …
Biography: G.F. Scott-Elliot, F.R.G.S., F.L.S
… 1902 to 1909. The period of his Presidency coincided with one of those ebb tides which such societies inevitably … and when towards the close of his Presidency he saw the welcome and unmistakeable signs of the incoming tide, it was … had increased to over four hundred a year. At this time he visited South America, spending four months in Chile and the …
Biography: William Fleming Cormack
… Battle of Alamein in October of the same year. Taken prisoner at Gerbini in Sicily he was in several POW camps in … fashion in the dedicated Volume 70 of the Transactions . Visitors to the excavations were always highly impressed … Surface Finds on Burnswark'. Ibid, p.189. 1962 'Two Coins from Glenluce Sand Dunes and One from Dryfesdale'. …
… Some people talk nostalgically about the 'good old days' but Fiona J. Houston went one step further and spent a year in the '18th century'. Her … and practical in the 1890s and thus she rejected the more common older head-dress look — so 1870s! Her daily tasks …
Meeting: Letterpress Printing
… The thirty-one members of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural … career as a printer in 1955 when he became an apprentice compositor at Dinwiddie's. At that time, there were five … the white line to Typewriter House.' This would bring the visitor to the Composing Room, lined with the Valuation …
Biography: George W. Shirley
… With the passing of Mr G.W. Shirley this Society has lost one who may properly be described as its re-founder. Coming to the town in 1903 as the first Librarian of the … D. & G ., 1923–24, 160 Carsluith Castle D. & G ., 1925–26, 247 Two Pioneer Galloway Agriculturalists D. & G ., …